Heading out of Beatty, Nevada, State Highway 374 runs southwest towards Death Valley National Park. It runs straight as an arrow for about 9 miles where it begins to wind its way up towards Daylight Pass between the Funeral Mountains…
Apple Blossoms It's difficult to pass up flowers, especially in the spring! I hope you'll pardon me for taking a break from my series of posts about Death Valley. Yesterday was May Day. The forecast was for rain but the…
We've had a very mild winter with very little snow. So, with one week until spring, Mother Nature and Old Man Winter conspired to dump snow on us. Fortunately, it was nothing compared to what the Northeast got, but it…
...that these are my last ice pictures of the year.
Glacier National Park Trip: Part 5 When you finish your trip over the Going-to-the-Sun Road, you can head north from St. Mary for about 9 miles and find another road that will take you back into the park. This is…
I like to take walks in Owen Conservation Park. It changes by the season but always has some interesting things to offer. With the sun getting lower in the sky and overnight lows flirting with freezing, another walk was overdue.…
Glacier National Park Trip: Part 4 The continental divide -- we all learned about it in grade school. Precipitation falling to the east strives to reach the Atlantic Ocean; to the west, it wends its way to the Pacific. Yellowstone…
Glacier National Park Trip: Part 3 Despite it's reputation for tardiness, Amtrak's Empire Builder rolled into West Glacier station almost exactly on time. After an enjoyable 27 hours on the train, we grabbed our bags and walked out as dusk…
